Air France, Airbus face angry families in AF447 crash trial
Source: Reuters
Air France, Airbus face angry families in AF447 crash trial
Tim Hepher and Yiming Woo
Mon, October 10, 2022 at 3:30 AM·4 min read
PARIS (Reuters) -A French criminal court opened the historic manslaughter trial of Air France and planemaker Airbus on Monday, with angry relatives demanding justice 13 years after an A330 jetliner ploughed into the Atlantic, killing all on board.
The heads of both companies pleaded not guilty to "involuntary manslaughter" after officials read out names of the 228 people who died when AF447 plunged into the darkness during an equatorial storm en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009.
Several relatives shouted protests as first Air France Chief Executive Anne Rigail then Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury expressed condolences during opening statements, with the latter's remarks drawing cries of "shame" and "too little, too late".
"Thirteen years we have been waiting for this day and we have prepared for a long time," Daniele Lamy, who lost her son in the accident, told Reuters before the hearing.
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